Xenko 1.0 Alpha Released

A new version is available for download. Run the Xenko Studio to download and install the latest version.

In Progress 🔗

• General: Integration of Spine
• General: Preparations for open-source release
• Issue: Installed in c:\ProgramData (#2)
• Issue: InvalidOperationException: No screen modes found (#7)
• UI: Improve layout of GameMenu sample.
• UI: Improve grid children measure process (fix some layout bugs).

Version 1.0.0-alpha07 🔗

Release date: 2014/09/04

Issues fixed 🔗

• Studio: Exiting the Xenko Studio was generating errors.

Version 1.0.0-alpha06 🔗

Release date: 2014/09/04

New Features 🔗

• Integrated release notes in the welcome menu
• Welcome to the new workspace!
• Integrate release notes in the new workspace
• Engine: Reload automatically shaders at runtime when they are modified on the disk (Windows only)
• Shaders: New DiscardTransparentThreshold shader. Set the threshold below the one a pixel will be discarded.
• Shaders: New shaders dealing with normal and tangent skinning.
• Materials: Add UseTransparentMask parameter key in material to disable alpha blending and use the alpha channel as a mask of the texture. Use AlphaDiscardThreshold parameter key to set the desired threshold below the one a pixel will be discarded.
• Assets: Support for TGA and PSD files for textures.
• UI: Add horizontally align text in EditText using property TextAlignment.
• UI: Add mouse wheel delta value since last frame using property IInputManager.MouseWheelDelta.
• UI: Add image stretch type StretchType.FillOnStretch and modify StretchType.Fill behavior (previous StretchType.Fill mode is now implemented by StretchType.FillOnStretch).

Enhancements 🔗

• General: Visual Studio Express 2013 can now open Xenko Projects (with some limitations) (#4)
• Engine: Change default Windows output type to Windows Application (#8): By default, a console is only opened when there is a message, assemblies are created in debug and the debugger is not attached.
• Engine: Add anisotropic texture filtering on mobile platforms that support it.
• Sample: AnimatedModel. Add lighting to the model. Use default Xenko pre defined shaders.
• Sample: ForwardLighting. Add transparent meshes.
• Sample: Set the same orientation for all samples on Android.
• Studio: Modal windows are not displayed in the taskbar anymore
• Studio: Improvement in the sprite editor: possibility to drop image files in the interface, improved region selection rectangle.
• Studio: Performance improvement in the editor, particularly in the sprite editor
• UI: Allow 0-sized strip definition in Grid.
• UI: Allow mixing of relative/absolute element positioning in Canvas.
• UI: Allow user to modify values of the UIRenderingContext.

Issues fixed 🔗

• Build: Android project fails to build (#3)
• Studio: GameStudio was using 100% of one CPU core (#1)
• Studio: Splash Screen always on top (#6)
• Studio: Fix GameStudio crash when importing assets using the add files button (#9)
• Studio: Build log is now displaying build feedback
• Studio: Fixed the Hue selection in the color picker
• Engine: Reduce effect change detection footprint (for example when changing the lighting configuration of the scene).
• Engine: Reuse rendering states.
• Shaders: Fix incorrect normal and tangent skinning in shaders.
• Shaders: Fix converter Hlsl to Glsl.
• Input: Fixed InputManager crash when window size is reach 0.
• Physics: Character Controller was not working properly on iOS.